Bolivian Mimosa (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae): three new species and a species checklist

MARGOTH ATAHUACHI; M. LEONTIEN VAN DER BENT; JOHN R.I. WOOD; GWILYM P. LEWIS; COLIN E. HUGHES

doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.260.3.1

Issue: Vol. 260 No. 3: 13 May 2016

Type: Article

Published: 2016-05-13

DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.260.3.1

Page range: 201–222

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**Bolivian Mimosa (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae): three new species and a species checklist**

MARGOTH ATAHUACHI⁺⁻
M. LEONTIEN VAN DER BENT⁺⁻
JOHN R.I. WOOD⁺⁻
GWILYM P. LEWIS⁺⁻
COLIN E. HUGHES⁺⁻

Herbario Forestal Nal. “M. Cardenas”, Centro de Biodiversidad y Genética, Facultad de Ciencias y Tecnología, Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Casilla 536, Bolivia

Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland Present address: Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Dept. Cell Biology, Nijmegen 6525 GA, The Netherlands

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3RB, U.K

Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, U.K.

Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland

Leguminosae Mimosa Bolivia new species species checklist Eudicots

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Abstract

Three new species of Mimosa (Leguminosae, Mimosoideae) M. chiquitaniensis, M. chochisensis and M. rastrera, two of them endemic to Bolivia, and the third also occurring in Brazil, are described and an annotated species checklist for the genus in Bolivia is presented. This brings the tally of species of Mimosa recorded from Bolivia to 55 (plus five doubtful species to be confirmed), an increase of ca. 50% since the monographic account of the genus published just over 25 years ago.